Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 2 | Another great naturalist , Thoreau , has focussed attention at the same scale : ‘ Nature will bear the closest inspection . |
| 3 | Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability . |
| 4 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 5 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 6 | Apart from LCpl Smith , and my driver ( I have my own Land-Rover ) , the Adjutant is really the one I work most closely with ; we always seem to take part in the same parades , but we usually get back to barracks first , leaving the officers and men on guard . |
| 7 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 8 | A tract entitled The Manner of Passing Bills in Parliament , published in 1685 , may have formed part of the same work . |
| 9 | In short , we may recognise three sources for the similarities in bylaws of common field farming in the East Midlands : first , a pattern of intermingled parcels of land involving all classes of tenants and lords ; second , some commonly accepted principles governing social life , which may fairly be regarded as the necessary outcome of the first proposition ; third , a similar physical environment which influenced the choice of farming objectives ; and last , similar economic pressures arising from the basic human need for food , and developing along similar lines , as the market in agricultural produce expanded and communities were driven to pursue change in the same general direction . |
| 10 | Jeszenszky also disclosed that the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) which was to have taken place at the same time , had been postponed for " technical reasons " [ see pp. 37979 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ She spoke about a young woman who had given birth in the same bed some years before . |
| 12 | Post-mortems carried out on two of the dead swans have proved inconclusive , but Mr O'Sullivan said he suspected the birds had fallen prey to the same disease which hit the colony before . |
| 13 | ‘ Our ancestors were trying to put Earth into the same orbit as Heaven . ’ |
| 14 | ( Elections in five states , Uttar Pradesh , Sikkim , Goa , Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka , had taken place at the same time as the general election in November — see pp. 37124-25 for results . ) |
| 15 | He had sent assistance with the same speed as last night . |
| 16 | For obvious reasons , I have included Crux in the same map with Centaurus . |
| 17 | This was assessed by two independent investigators by observing ( a ) the cell appearance and their ability to attach the plate in the first 24 hours and ( b ) the length of time the culture required to reach confluency from the same starting number of cells per well . |